SOLVED Automatically select best account

[PaBear]

I use Mail as provided in OS, without any modifications in macOS Mojave 10.14.3 on my MacBook Pro and the equivalent on my iMac in High Sierra 10.13.6.

Under 'Mail>preferences>composing' I am offered a choice as to which address my message(s) is to be sent from.

Unless I select a specific one, the catch-all choice of "Send new messages from 'automatically select best account' always defaults to the same address. Inevitably, the one it lands on is different from the one I have used to set up the e-mail. Can lead to mild embarrassment!

Can I disable this 'auto-choice'?

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello and welcome,

Through El Capitan, you could select Send new messages from: Account of selected mailbox, but it changed in Sierra to Automatically select best account. I believe that still means the selected account, but I am not 100% sure. If not, then you will have to double-check the From: section when composing an email.

There isn't a way to change the defaults other than the selections you have.

C

 

[PaBear]

Hello and welcome,

Through El Capitan, you could select Send new messages from: Account of selected mailbox, but it changed in Sierra to Automatically select best account. I believe that still means the selected account, but I am not 100% sure. If not, then you will have to double-check the From: section when composing an email.

There isn't a way to change the defaults other than the selections you have.

C

Thanks, Cory.
I think I may float this one by the Mac help-line [to see if I can get a bite!] as it seems wrong to have to keep going back to Mail Preferences to reset the outgoing mail address.

 

[PaBear]

Thanks, Cory.
I think I may float this one by the Mac help-line [to see if I can get a bite!] as it seems wrong to have to keep going back to Mail Preferences to reset the outgoing mail address.

After more than 3 hours this afternoon talking to Apple Support, both by telephone and online, I think we have cracked this. All my iCloud account and email details on my Mojave MacBook Pro (2016) have been rebuilt.
So far the sending e-mail address selection is being obeyed. For most of the afternoon the 'send' address defaulted to another gmail. Only after a careful rebuild (and I hope I haven't lost any files) it seems OK.

The two Apple advisors were very patient.

I am not yet sure but I believe my older High Sierra I-mac was not being affected by this issue.

 

[Cory Cooper]

Excellent...glad you got more "official" word.

Thanks for sharing,

C

 

[wdjudd]

This is a pain in the neck in Mojave too! Is there a way to use Terminal to disable this behavior? Thanks